Introducing the NEEShub

1. Introducing the NEEShub IT and EOT Leadership Teams Ellen Rathje (Univ of Texas) Sean Brophy (Purdue Univ) Thalia Anagnos (SJ State Univ)

2. Goals of this presentation • Inform the NEES community about planned IT/EOT developments • Engage and involve the NEES community in the development process • Obtain feedback on our plans This Webinar represents the first in a series aimed at engaging the NEES community

3. IT Team NEES Community IT expertise Earthquake Engineers Rudi Eigenmann (Purdue) Ellen Rathje (UTexas) Tom Hacker (Purdue) Shirley Dyke (Purdue) Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue) Santiago Pujol (Purdue) Ayhan Irfanoglu (Purdue) Dawn Weisman- IT Director Greg Rodgers - Sr Software Eng Brian Rohler - Sr Software Eng NEEScomm IT Staff Ann-Christine Catlin – Hub Tech, Data HUB development staff Data Sub Comm (Dyke) Strategic Leadership RAAS (Browning) Operations User’s Forum (van de Lindt) Equipment Site IT CI Sub Comm of PAC (Fortes)

4. HUB technology: a Leading CI • Best known through nanoHUB.org • Serving 90,000 in highly diverse field of nanotechnology • Proven community building • Underlying platform HUBzerotm • 9 hubs exist, 11 in development, 6 proposed NEEShub HUBzeroTM cceHUB cceHub thermalHUB cceHub CTSIhub

5. Hub Technology: The Next Big Thing After WWW Execute remote software tools as if they were here N3DV launches on project X data N3DV screen is inserted in User’s web browser View NEES project X

6. NEEShub (www.nees.org)

7. NEEShub Facilitates IT Development NEEShub Existing Assets: Tools and datainstalled @ end of Y1 New developments: based on identified IT shortcomings NEES Data New IT tools: Project Display, Data Viewer, NEES Academy OpenSees RDV RDV N3DV N3DV N3DV FlexTPS FlexTPS FlexTPS • NEEShub will not replace what exists today • Current tools/ functionalities will still be available to users • IT tools developed by: • NEEScomm IT staff • NEES community • Outside community

8. Proposed NEEShub Release 1 Target Date: July 31, 2010 • Current NEES IT tools will be available • New tools developed by NEEScomm: • Project Warehouse (Project Display, inDEED Data Viewer) • Upload and Curation Tools • OpenSEES running on NEEShub • Site information, availability, and calendar • NEES Academy : EOT resources

9. Project Warehouse • Interface includes: • Project Display • inDEED Data Viewer • Plans to interface with other viewers (e.g., RDV, 3DDV, N3DV) • Evolving NEEScentral interface • More navigable • Searchable • Easier to rapidly view/interpret data

10. Project Warehouse (Prototype) Source: PreNEESR T-walls project PI: Cathy French

11. Project Display (Prototype)

12. Project Display (Prototype) Click on data to launch inDEED

13. inDEED Demo

14. Data Upload • Upload vs. authoring • Upload tool: UT’s SingleShot • Working with Site IT managers to expand to all project types • Future improvements to SingleShot • Upload/transfer in the background • Incremental upload

15. SingleShot (Prototype)

16. Curation Tools • Curation has been a bottleneck • A significant backlog exists • Data curator requires significant time to curate each project • Developing tools to speed up/improve curation within the current framework • Future: curation-at-the-source (Yr 2/3)

17. Numerical Simulation Tools • Power of HUB technology • Remote simulation • Integration with data • OpenSEES will be installed on NEEShub • Future: improved user interface, documentation, and integrated with database tools • Other tools from community will be available through the NEEShub

18. Comparing Simulation and Experimental Data Source: NEES-CABER project PI: David Sanders

19. Site Information

20. Site Availability @Oregon @Buffalo @Davis @Minnesota @Nevada @RPI @Cornell @Berkeley @Illinois @Lehigh @UCLA @Santa Barbara @Texas @San Diego

21. Site Availability

22. Site Calendar

23. Network-wide Calendar

24. IT Development Timeline • Transition to Purdue complete! • March 31, 2010 • Prototype schedule (targets) • Week of April 12 • Week of May 24 • Week of July 5 • NEEShub released to public • July 31, 2010

25. Strategic Leadership Operations Thalia Anagnos, Co-PI (San José State) Sean Brophy (Purdue) Barbara Cooper- EOT Coordinator Pending – Instructional Designer Allegra East – Communications Specialist Jared West – Technology Specialist Jason Lambert – Software Engineer

26. NEES Community EOT Needs • NEESR Proposals • Effective and widely disseminated “Broader Impacts” • Researchers/Instructors • Mentor/train graduate students for research • Learn to use site tools and equipment • Connect research with education • Disseminate educational resources and research • Integrate simulations and educational tools with courses • Teach graduate and undergraduate course with new instructional methods • Assess student learning

27. How can NEEScomm Help? • Partner with you to… • Disseminate effective learning experiences you have developed • Develop and test educational innovations • Prioritize your application and content needs • Training • Course instruction • Others • Identify potential resources – existing or that need to be developed • Videos, animation, interactive simulation (HUB tools)

28. Leverage Growing Number of Resources Data visualization tools Webinar and video lectures Telepresence Video Online simulation… Image Gallery Wiki, blog…collaboration Video (Youtube channel)

29. EOT Site InformationNEES Academy Teaching with simulations Activities for teaching design Lecture on … Principles of how people learn… Project ideas for teaching concepts… Using research data in learning activities

30. EOT Site InformationNEES Academy training students to instrument specimens training students to run experiments designing experiments conducting research at specific sites lectures Series… writing effective proposals

31. EOT Site InformationNEES Academy What is earthquake engineering? Basic instrumentation 101? Basics of … Introduction to computational modeling Introduction hybrid testing… Designing effective experiments at site…

32. When does failure occur under different loading conditions? What are the indicators of pending failure seen in the data? Example 1: Learning activities with data, video and simulations

33. Wrap “context” around experimental video to teach fundamental concepts, disseminate research findings Example 2: Modules with Embedded Experimental Video • Learning Objectives • Experiment Background • Relevant Theory • Potential Student Assignments • Potential Assessments

34. Example 3: Data and Simulation for Challenge-based Learning Research data and simulations for learning Students use NEES data to explore the limits of and assumptions underlying analytical models

35. Example 4: Integrate NEEShub tools into educational modules Use selected datasets to illustrate important concepts. Student compare predicted and actual behavior Source: NEES-CABER project PI: David Sanders

36. Example 5: Expanding the “Reach” of Outreach Use NEEShub tools for remote participation in outreach activities Share activities and best practices in NEES Academy

37. Send questions to IT and EOT team at neescomm@purdue.edu • Questions and responses posted at www.nees.org/forums • We need you! • Volunteer to test prototypes during development. • E-mail IT Director Dawn Weisman (dweisman@purdue.edu) • Contribute ideas and needs for EOT/NEES Academy • E-mail EOT Director Barbara Cooper (bcooper@purdue.edu)